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Poetry/Drama
Literary Elements
Figurative Language
Genres
Potpourri
100
Words or instructions in a play that are written in italics and enclosed by parenthesis
What are stage directions?
100
The message or lesson of a story
What is theme?
100
The tree danced in the breeze
What is personification?
100
A written piece in which the author attempts to convince you to feel or to believe in the manner which he wants
What is to persuade?
100
Where you should look to help you find words with similar meanings (synonyms)
What is a thesaurus
200
In a play, the conversation between characters; it advances the plot and reveals conflict.
What is dialogue?
200
The use of clues by an author that suggest events that have yet to occur
What is foreshadowing?
200
The earth is a green blanket
What is a metaphor?
200
Includes stage directions and dialogue
What is drama?
200
what every answer should have to prove that you are correct
What is text support?
300
The repetition of sounds at the end of words
What is rhyme?
300
The perspective from which a story is told
What is point of view?
300
Like a tiger in a zoo, I lost my freedom for free room and board.
What is a simile?
300
Tells a made up story that may or may not be likely to happen in real life
What is fiction?
300
Using the 5 W's plus how to tell what the story/passage is about
What is summarizing?
400
The use of a word or phrase more than one time--used to emphasize.
What is repetition?
400
A struggle between two opposing forces
What is conflict?
400
The toad croaked while the bee buzzed in the middle of the afternoon.
What is onomatopoeia?
400
text in which the author's intent is to explain or to expose information to the reader
What is to inform?
400
the structure that the author uses to tell his story
What is author's organization of text?
500
Using the 5 senses to create an image for the reader so that (s)he can better understand the story, poem, or drama
What is imagery?
500
The feeling created IN THE READER by a literary work or passage
What is mood?
500
Language that appeals to the 5 senses
What is imagery?
500
a piece written by the author's in which his sole purpose is to provide humor or a diversion for the reader
What is to entertain?
500
putting events in the order of their occurrence
What is sequence?